Two people were arrested Saturday morning after leading authorities on an hour-long chase through Dallas after a shooting near Interstate 35.

The chase involved a Dallas police helicopter and deputies from the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department. It began around 3 a.m. after a report of a shooting between two cars near Interstate 35 and Holcomb Road in West Dallas.

The chase winded through Oak Cliff and into Pleasant Grove, where a passenger jumped out of the car. That passenger hid under the patio of a nearby home, and was arrested with a weapon soon after, according to a deputy’s report. Meanwhile, the chase continued for about another half-mile before the driver was arrested without incident.

No one was injured. Authorities have not released the names or the charges of the people arrested.

Update, 9:09 a.m. by Gregory Castillo: The death of a man who fell from an 11th floor apartment balcony late Friday on Turtle Creek Boulevard has been ruled a suicide, according to Dallas police.

Original post at 8:56 a.m. Saturday: Dallas police are investigating the death of a man who fell from an 11th floor apartment balcony on Turtle Creek Boulevard late Friday.

The death happened at the 3525 Turtle Creek luxury apartments at around 11:30 p.m. Police are treating it as an “unexplained death.” The identity of the man has not been released. He was in his 30s, police said.

A disturbance had been reported at the apartment before the death, but police said they saw no evidence of a struggle. Witnesses told investigators that the man was alone on the balcony when he fell.

Updated at 8:26 a.m. Monday: The driver of a stolen van killed after he crashed into a concrete barrier has been identified as 58-year-old Jerald Bruton.

He died from multiple blunt force injuries, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner.

Original post at 2:12 p.m. Saturday: The driver of a stolen van died in Arlington after he crashed into a concrete culvert while trying to evade police.

The wreck happened around 9 p.m. Friday while the man was fleeing officers from Kennedale. The chase after police from Kennedale identified the vehicle as stolen out of Fort Worth.

The driver was heading east on Interstate 20 near U.S. 287, Arlington police said. He tried to cut off the highway and onto the service road, but hit a concrete culvert in the middle of a grassy field.

The man was taken from the scene by ambulance and reported dead soon after. His identity has not been released.

A three-day search for a homeless Grand Prairie man suspected in a stabbing death ended Saturday after a resident recognized his face on a flier, police said.

Authorities had been looking for Billy Wayne Jarrett since early Tuesday morning, when another homeless man was found near the 1500 block of Belt Line Road with a stab wound in his chest. The man, whose name has not been released, died that day at Methodist Dallas Medical Center.

Billy Wayne Jarrett

Speaking with witnesses at the scene, police quickly identified Jarrett as a suspect. But, with no permanent address, they had difficulty tracking him down. They posted fliers in areas where homeless resided around town.

Acting on a tip, they found him “right in the same area” of where the stabbing occurred, said Lyle Gensler, a spokesman for the Grand Prairie Police Department.

Gensler said he didn’t know the suspected motive for the killing.

Jarrett remained at the Grand Prairie city jail Saturday afternoon. His bail was set at $100,000.

Dallas police said they responded to 81 reports of gunfire during the 4th of July holiday.

They also received “hundreds of calls” related to fireworks, though they didn’t have an exact number Saturday morning.

Police regularly warn of the dangers of random celebratory gunfire, but that doesn’t keep reports from flowing in each year. Of course, many reports of shots fired could have come from people mistaking fireworks for shots.

Still, there were some incidents in which true shootings did occur. The most serious was at Bruton Road, where a fight broke out over a dice game at a gas station.

Police said the fight escalated to gunfire and three people reported being hit at the scene. Another person fled, and later called police to report a gunshot wound. None of the injuries were serious, though two people were taken to a hospital. Police did not report any arrests.

Jason Harrison was shot after officers were called to his home on Glencairn Drive, near Interstate 35E and Camp Wisdom Road, about 11:30 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Gil Garza said.

Someone at the home had reported that Harrison needed to be hospitalized because he was suffering from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

When officers arrived, they were told Harrison had been making “disturbing remarks,” police said.

He came out of the home with a screwdriver and became aggressive when the officers told him to drop it.

Both officers drew their guns and shot at Harrison, who died at the scene. The officers were not injured.

“It was a very very, very brief altercation …,” Garza said. “The officers were protecting themselves.”

The officers’ names were not released, and police did not say whether they had provided statements about the incident yet.

Under a policy enacted in November, police involved in shootings have the right to remain silent for up to 72 hours. They are also allowed to review any surveillance footage before providing statements.

Garza said the officers have been placed on administrative leave, which is routine after shootings, and video from the scene is being reviewed.

Original post: A man was fatally shot by police Saturday after a confrontation at the front door of his Red Bird home, authorities said.

The man, whose name has not been released, had a weapon at the time of the shooting. Police would not say what that weapon was, though they did say it wasn’t a gun.

Hours after the shooting, officers were vague on the details. Deputy Chief Gil Garza, who leads the crimes against persons division, told reporters that officers were called to the 200 block of Glencairn Drive around 11:20 a.m. because of a man “exhibiting mental health behavior.”

They knocked on the door, and the man was shot soon after. They didn’t say how many shots were fired, when the man was hit or whether he died at the scene.

“It was a very very very brief altercation,” Garza said, declining to give any other details.

He later added, “The officers were protecting themselves.”

Police said there was one other person inside the home at the time of the shooting — the person who called police.

The two involved officers have been placed on administrative leave, which is routine procedure after shots have been fired.

Police have arrested a 48-year-old Dallas man who they say shot and killed his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend in Old East Dallas this week.

Rodney Smith

Rodney Eugene Smith was booked into jail early Saturday morning. He has been charged in the death of 48-year-old Roderick Smith, who was found shot in his apartment on North Haskell Avenue on Thursday.

The two men are not related, police said, but appeared to know each other. Soon after Roderick Smith’s body was found, his girlfriend told investigators that she used to date Rodney Smith.

The girlfriend said that she had spoken on the phone with her ex the day of the shooting and told him her to tell the new boyfriend that “I’m going to shoot him,” according to an arrest affidavit.

Less than an hour after that conversation, someone broke down the door of Roderick Smith’s apartment and shot him twice with a semiautomatic pistol.

Police were called to the scene and talked to a neighbor who said he heard the gunshots and saw a bald man with a goatee leaving the apartment. The man had a gun in his right hand that he put in his back pocket as he fled, the witness told police.

A day later, police tracked down Roderick Smith’s girlfriend. She told investigators about the phone conversation she’d had with Rodney Smith, and confirmed that he matched the description that the neighbor had provided of the armed man.

Police arranged for the witness to view a photo lineup, and he identified Rodney Smith as the shooter, according to an affidavit. Rodney Smith appears to have shaved his goatee before his arrest. His booking photo shows him clean-shaven.

Update at 3:45 p.m., May 18, by Tristan Hallman: Maj. Max Geron tweeted out a statement from Holliday’s family.

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Update at 11:28 a.m., May 18, by Tristan Hallman: Dallas police Maj. Max Geron has tweeted that the Medical Examiner has confirmed, using fingerprints, that the man was Greg Holliday.

Original post, 1:49 p.m. May 17: Dallas police believe that they have found the body of a former assistant chief who went missing early last week.

A person of the same age and race of Greg Holliday and wearing clothes that match what he was last wearing was found submerged in a creek near the Preston Trails Golf Club in Far North Dallas. Game wardens from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department were travelling the creek by boat and using sonar to search for Holliday.

Greg Holliday

Chief David Brown said in a press conference that the body has been taken to a medical examiner to confirm the identity.

“Based on the description, we believe we have found [Holliday's] body,” he said.

A cause of death hasn’t been determined, but Brown said the creek had a slippery incline and had been rushing with water due to heavy rains earlier this week. It seems possible that Holliday could have fallen and drowned, Brown suggested.

“It is very tragic,” Brown said. “We are just praying right now for this family.”

Holliday disappeared on Monday while walking near the 5800 block of Campbell Road. His disappearance coincided with the anniversary of his adult daughter’s death. Authorities have said he may have been trying to wean himself off some medications.

At one point, police said they suspected he may have been hit by a car at 4:15 p.m. on Monday. Authorities said he may have rolled up on the hood of a moving car and then walked away. They later backed away from that idea, saying they weren’t sure it was him.

It’s unclear how long the body had been in the creek. Brown said it was found in a narrow bend, but may have entered the creek upstream. The creek is about nine miles long. Search dogs identified the creek as a possible location for Holliday earlier in the week. The sonar machine was brought in from outside the county to help with the search.

Holliday retired from the department in 2002. He was promoted to assistant chief status in 1988.

Jenkins is preparing to propose a restructuring of how deputies in the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department are paid. He hopes to include the change in next year’s budget, but will need the support of the majority of the Commissioners Court to do so.

“Our sheriff’s deputies compensation package is not in line with the averages paid in North Texas,” he said in an interview Friday. “That must change.”

The station said the rating means that the academy could have its own license revoked if it doesn’t show signs of improvement. In 2013, 20 of the academy’s 27 cadets failed their licensing exam.

Jenkins said increasing pay may help the department find cadets with more potential.

“If you want to recruit well, then you have to pay a decent wage,” he said.

Currently, sheriff’s office salaries are determined like most other departments– the county commissioners allocate a certain amount for raises in the budget and then department heads determine how that is distributed. Jenkins wants to implement a “step” system, which is what most law enforcement agencies in the area use.

A step system basically provides a road map for how employees will be paid over their careers. Instead of divvying up a certain amount of money annually, pay increases are scheduled based on tenure. For example, a first year office might know that his starting salary would be increased by 3 percent after his first year on the job, as long as disciplinary issues didn’t get in the way. Then, two years later, he might be scheduled for another increase.

The Commissioners Court approved such a plan last decade, but the economy tanked and the county failed to fund it. Because of that, Jenkins said, the county has fallen behind on how it compensates law enforcement.

Jenkins said he didn’t yet have numbers on how much implementing a step plan would cost. But he said he expects it will take much of the money that the county expects to receive from increased property taxes next year.

The Dallas Central Appraisal District released numbers Friday indicating that taxable values in the county are up 7 percent since last year. That is the highest growth since the Great Recession.

Police said they do not expect to charge the assistant manager of a Pleasant Grove apartment complex with a crime after she fatally shot a man in the complex’s parking lot overnight.

Angela Martin, 44, appeared to be acting in self defense, spokeswoman Melinda Gutierrez said. Still, the case will be referred to a grand jury.

Police said the shooting happened after a woman and her husband started an argument with Martin while Martin was sitting in her car at 400 South St. Augustine Drive.

“[Martin], feeling uneasy about the situation, pulled her handgun from her purse and placed it in her lap, as she continued to sit in the vehicle,” Gutierrez said.

The husband, Louis Rodriguez, then pulled a knife and stabbed Martin multiple times in the left forearm, police said. As she was being stabbed, Martin fired multiple shots at Rodriguez, hitting him. Rodriguez’s brother, who was trying to pull him away, was also shot in the stomach.

Rodriguez, 52, died from his wounds. His brother was taken to Baylor Hospital and was in fair condition Saturday.

Martin was briefly hospitalized and then released. At police headquarters, she told investigators that she was acting in self defense. Police said witnesses corroborated her story at the scene.